CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - BLOOMQUIST Anna Nelson

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ANNA BLOOMQUIST
LONG TIME MAGNET
RESIDENT DIED AT 85

Funeral services were held at Magnet Tuesday in the Church of Christ for 
Mrs. Anna Bloomquist, long time Magnet resident,, who died Saturday at 
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bert Mitchell of Belden. She had been ill 
several weeks.

Mrs. Bloomquist had been a resident of the Magnet community for 56 years. 
She was born in Simoima, Sweden, April 19, 1869, the daughter of John and 
Christine Nelson. At the age of 13, she came to America with an aunt and 
settled at Essex, IA.

She was married to Frank Bloomquist, February 27, 1896, and they came 
immediately to Magnet, which had since been their home. Mr. Bloomquist 
died April 24, 1942. Mrs. Bloomquist had been at Mrs. Mitchell’s home 
for a year.

Survivors are three sons, Harold and Martin Bloomquist of McLean and Paul 
of Waterloo, IA; four daughters; Mrs. Helen Mitchell of Belden, Mrs. Ethel 
Behrend of Wausa, Mrs. Doris Becker of Norfolk, Mrs. Edna Stahl of Dos Palos, 
Calif.; three sisters; 25 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. Two sons, 
also preceded in death. 

Mrs. Bloomquist was a member of the Church of Christ at Magnet. Grandsons 
acted as pallbearers at the funeral, internment was in the Magnet Cemetery.